If you like meter as much as I do
then amphibrach meter’s the meter for you.
With its DA-dit-dit, DA-dit-dit, DA-dit-dit sound,
for humorous poems, it’s the best one around.
With dactyls and anapests strewn through and through,
it chugs right along with a beat that imbues
the lines of a poem with a good, spritely pace
that dances along like the hare in the race—
with the slow-moving tortoise, but this time instead,
the lead-footed snapper does not pull ahead.
The hare doesn’t squander his lead, not this time,
for amphibrach meter is THE most sublime—
at keeping the pace as it waltzes along
with its slow-quick-quick, slow-quick-quick beat going strong.
